[GRASS5] Re: [GRASS-CVS] CVS update: grass

[Glynn Clements]

Eric G. Miller wrote:

> > It tries each of -ltk and -ltk<version> three times; once with no
> > additional libraries, once with the X libraries, and once with X
> > libraries and libdl.
> > 
> > However, it appears to be caching the fact that both -ltk and
> > -ltk<version> failed the first time, and not actually performing the
> > last two sets of checks.
> 
> That caching seems to be the normal behavior, hence all the file tests,
> prior to the AC_CHECK_LIB() tests in the previous versions...
> Unfortunately, the Tcl/Tk libs are named in various manners on various
> platforms... (libtk8.0, libtk80, libtk, etc... ).

Checking for multiple library names isn't problematic; a cached result
from AC_CHECK_LIB(tk, ...) won't affect AC_CHECK_LIB(tk8.0, ...) and
so on.

The problem comes when performing multiple AC_CHECK_LIB operations
with identical library names, but with different settings for LDFLAGS.

Anyway, I think that I can "undo" the caching by unsetting the
appropriate ac_cv_lib_* variable.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn.clements at virgin.net>